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Zhou B, Yang T, Bao Y. Does cue processing modulate inhibition of return in a detection task? Psych J 2018; 8:158-164. [PMID: 30375191 DOI: 10.1002/pchj.253] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2018] [Revised: 09/15/2018] [Accepted: 09/20/2018] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
Abstract
While the abrupt onset of a peripheral visual cue usually leads to speeded responses to following targets at the cued relative to other positions, responses are slowed if targets lag behind the cue by more than ~200 ms. This response delay is termed inhibition of return (IOR) and has been considered as a mechanism to orient behavior toward novel areas. IOR has been found in both detection and discrimination tasks with later onset in discrimination tasks, probably due to a higher processing demand. Here we examined whether the processing demand of cues can modulate IOR in the detection task. The task to the peripheral cues, either color or gap cues, was passive viewing in one session (single task) and discrimination in another session (dual task). The results showed that the time course of IOR was resistant to the cue processing, while the magnitude of IOR was increased when the processing load became larger in the dual task relative to the single task. These results indicate that IOR in target detection is both reflexive in that its temporal dynamics remain invariant, and flexible in that its magnitude is modulated by task requirement.
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Affiliation(s)
- Bin Zhou
- Institute of Psychology, CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.,Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.,Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany.,Human Science Center, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany.,Human Science Center, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany.,School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Medical Psychology, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany.,Human Science Center, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany.,School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.,Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking University, Beijing, China
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Selective spatial enhancement: Attentional spotlight size impacts spatial but not temporal perception. Psychon Bull Rev 2016; 23:1144-9. [DOI: 10.3758/s13423-015-0904-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Exploring the effect of stimulus characteristics on location-based inhibition of return using abrupt and ramped stimulus presentation. Vision Res 2012; 60:28-33. [DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2012.03.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2010] [Revised: 03/01/2012] [Accepted: 03/02/2012] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Brown JM, Guenther BA. Magnocellular and Parvocellular Pathway Influences on Location-Based Inhibition-Of-Return. Perception 2012; 41:319-38. [DOI: 10.1068/p7133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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The roles of the parvocellular (P) and magnocellular (M) retino-geniculo-cortical pathways during shifts of visual attention were investigated by creating M/dorsal-biased (eg low spatial frequency target, no objects present) and P/ventral-biased (ie high spatial frequency target, the perception of 3-D objects) stimulus conditions and measuring location-based inhibition-of-return (IOR). P/ventral-biased conditions produced the greatest IOR. M/dorsal-biased conditions produced the least IOR, in one instance eliminating it altogether. The results indicate a close relationship between IOR magnitude and relative P/ventral and M/dorsal activity with location-based IOR related more to P/ventral than to M/dorsal activity.
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- James M Brown
- Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-3013, USA
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Understanding the relationship between bottom-up and top-down processing in visual perception and attention is challenging. An important part of that challenge is studying the roles the parvocellular (P) and magnocellular (M) retino-geniculo-cortical pathways play in visual processing and attention. The P pathway provides the dominant initial input to the ventral stream which plays an important role in object processing and is assumed to be relatively more involved in object-based attention. The faster responding M pathway provides the dominant initial input to the dorsal stream which plays an important role in processing movement and spatial location information and is assumed to be relatively more involved in space-based attention. To gain insight into the relationship between M/dorsal and P/ventral activity and deploying visual attention, we used a covert cuing paradigm to manipulate attention while bottom-up and top-down perceptual stimulus variables created M/dorsal and P/ventral-biased conditions. One study examined the object advantage, where responses are faster for within-relative to equidistant between-object shifts of attention. Visual stream contributions to object- and spaced-based attention were revealed using psychophysically equiluminant conditions expected to reduce M/dorsal activity. Other studies investigating visual stream contributions to location-based inhibition of return (IOR) used IOR magnitude as an indicator of the ease or difficulty of deploying spatial attention. Greater IOR was found under P/ventral-biased conditions. Less IOR was found under M/dorsal-biased conditions. The results support the use of M/dorsal and P/ventral-biased conditions as a valuable strategy for studying the relationship between visual stream activity and shifting attention.
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- James M Brown
- Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA.
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